“They again repented, and carved two stone images of the _Alósaka_ which they painted and decked with feathers and sought to propitiate the mother. She was full of pity for her people, and prayed to the Sky-god[27] to relieve them. A period elapsed in which their sufferings were in great measure abated. “The _Patuñ_ then sought to join the _Pátki_ clans, but the _Pátki_ would not permit this, and compelled them to keep east of Awatobi. “Many ruins of phratry and family houses of the _Patuñ_ people exist on the small watercourses north of the Puerco at various distances eastward from the present village of Walpi. The nearest are almost fifteen miles, the farthest about fifty miles.[28] “Their wandering course was now stayed. When they essayed to move farther eastward, a nomadic hunting race who occupied that region besought them not to advance farther. Their evil notoriety had preceded them, and the nomads feared the malificent influence of their neighborhood. It would seem, however, that instead of hostile demonstrations the nomads entered into a treaty with them, offering to pay tribute of venison, roots, and grass-seeds, if they would abstain from traversing and blighting their land, to which the _Patuñ_ agreed. “But these unfortunate wretches were soon again embroiled in factional warfare which finally involved all the Hopi, and the stone images of the _Alósaka_ were lost or destroyed. Famine and pestilence again decimated them, until finally the _Alósaka katcina_ appeared to them and instructed them to carve[29] two wooden images, but threatening them that if these should be lost or destroyed all the people would die.” * * * * * Many other but widely divergent legends exist regarding _Alósaka_, a number of which are associated with the pueblo of Awatobi, which was formerly one of the most populous Hopi towns. At one time this village experienced drouth and famine, and _Alósaka_, from his home in the San Francisco mountains, observed the trouble of the people. Disguised as a youth he visited Awatobi and became enamored with a maiden of that town. Several times he visited her, but no one knew whence he came or whither he went, for his trail no one could follow. The parents of the girl at last discovered that he came on the rainbow, and recognized him as a divine being. The children of this maid were horned beings, or _Alósakas_, but their identity was not at first recognized. Like all the cultus heroes, _Alósaka_ is said, in legends, to have been miraculously born of a virgin. His father was the Sun, his mother an Earth-goddess, sometimes called a maiden. Like many gods, he traveled on the rainbow; he lived at Tawaki, the house of his father, the Sun, or the San Francisco mountains.